Bad Morty
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12 minutes ago, bababooey said:
Based on the reddit post about this, it appears Pats fans don't even like these guys because of their politics.
yeah...overall MA is a pretty heavy liberal state, and they (Callahan in particular) are pretty conservative. I know they got told a few years back to stay off of politics and keep it to sports, because it got to be an almost daily thing that was costing them ratings. So they've for the most part stayed out of pure political stuff.
But this particular theme (race relations) has become kind of a gray area because a lot of it spills over into sports...so that gives them a door to talk about it while still technically talking about sports issues.
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this was less about Brady and more about the politics of these 2 hosts. I realize political discussions aren't allowed here, and I'm not bringing this up to start a political argument. I'm simply trying to provide the context here, and that is that these 2 consistently rant about this exact issue. They went on for weeks about this when Adam Jones (Orioles) claimed that someone was yelling the "N" word at him from the stands at Fenway. They've also gone after Bomani Jones and Michael Che recently over their comments on race related issues.
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14 hours ago, Jules said:
You pick against them since it gets boring. I mean someone has to rise up and challenge this pathetic conference.
The reason people like the Raiders is because they have a QB. Now they just have to improve defensively and run the ball better when up by a lot of points.
And Brady despite his uber OMG greatness will be 40 years old. Yes he looks young though compared to some that never aged as well at QB. But, you have to wonder when father time and logic finally goes against him maybe. Then again Brady is known for that clean healthy organic diet and probably gets supermodel tips for being an age less soul from his wife.
I have been expecting Brady's steady decline for the past couple of years, but after last year I am wondering exactly what that decline is going to look like. Brady's game relies on very little of the "raw athleticism" that the game demands of players at other positions. His main strength is his ability to diagnose and read defenses, and check into a better play when necessary. He's not out there outrunning linebackers or throwing it 50 yards in the air off his back foot. So while he will surely get incrementally slower, he is not likely to decline mentally. As long as he remains a 40 something guy in excellent shape who still has a burning competitive passion for the game, I expect he'll be able to play QB at a really high level...maybe not the same level as last year, but hell...most teams would kill for 75% of Tom Brady versus whoever they currently have at QB.
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7 hours ago, Jules said:
Conspiracies are already out that it was murder and not suicide.
You didn't hear this from me, but word is that Hernandez was sitting on some bombshell deflategate info that he was ready to go public with...right before he turned up dead under mysterious circumstances. #Suffo-gate
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4 minutes ago, oldunclemark said:
the helmets not only have to BE game-worn.
'They have to look it.
That's my point..and may have been all Eli was saying...to the equipment guy
After all, I don't think Eli Manning or any pro QB spends time picking out memorabilia to be sold. do you?
I don't know the first thing about the memorabilia industry. But I know that a piece of equipment can only be one of 2 things:
1) Game worn
2) Not game worn
If it's game worn but doesn't "look" game worn, that's ok to sell as game worn. If it's not game worn but "looks" game worn, that's not ok to sell as game worn. His emails seem to pretty conclusively suggest that he was looking for non-game worn equipment that could "pass" as game worn.
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3 minutes ago, oldunclemark said:
Not necessarily.
By 'pass'..did he mean they looked game worn?
Sometimes game worn helmets don't look game worn, right?
To satisfy the requests..Eli wanted helmets that LOOKED game worn...\He was trying to satisfy the request, the way I look at it..
But that's the point...you can't sell helmets that "look" game worn but weren't as "game worn".
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8 minutes ago, oldunclemark said:
I guess that's what I'm saying.
If Eli asked a equipment guy to get a couple of game-worn helmets....he surely believed that's what was done.
If you read his emails to the trainer, he asked for helmets "that could pass as game worn". That doesn't indicate that he believed he was getting helmets that were "in fact" game worn.
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According to the NY Post, Eli was working with the Giants' equipment manager to sell fake "game worn" stuff.
http://nypost.com/2017/04/13/heres-proof-eli-manning-was-in-on-giants-memorabilia-scheme/
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2 hours ago, chad72 said:
Sorry Southwest1, I normally do not butt in during conversations between two posters. However, I do think you had a lapse of judgement in your interpretation of the reasons for their vicarious lives. It was poorly worded and instead of leaving it alone, you seem to be doubling down by not acknowledging it or leaving it alone. Hence I felt I had to say something.
Again, for everyone's benefit, so that they don't have to wonder what Jules and I were referring to, here is exactly what you said in italics below:
I just get the sense that some fans live vicariously through Brady because their ordinary lives pale in comparison so guys overcompensate since their ability to satisfy their woman isn't that great & they live a paycheck to paycheck lifestyle for the most part. Brady is their happy place because their mundane existence sucks.
It clearly takes a judgemental and/or caustic stance on those fans' lives that was uncalled for. It would have been different if you had just said it is tantamount to idol worship or hero worship, the blind deity like following of Brady but you went a step too far, IMO. Jules was absolutely correct in calling you out for this specific paragraph. I have mad respect for your eloquent style and communication but this was not one of your shining moments.
Other posters doing similar stuff, you are better than that in our eyes to use that as justification, and no, two wrongs don't make a right. You can go on and on and on in defiance or agree to disagree and move on, it is your choice.
Here here. And with that, I'm off to the clinic to see if i can exchange some plasma for a bottle of viagra.
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1 hour ago, Buddy Lee said:
I may be wrong but I don't believe the officials put air in footballs.
they do if the team turns in balls that are under the low PSI limit. They also take air out if teams give them balls that are over the limit. That's one of the reasons I believe my theory...we learned from Wells rpt that the gauges aren't even calibrated (refs had 2 gauges nearly half a pound different). So if a team inflates balls right to the 12.5 limit on their team gauges, then the ref checks them pregame with a gauge that reads them at 12.0, the ref will inflate them a half pound to 12.5 on his gauge...but the team gauge would say those balls are 13. That's why this whole thing is silly...the league had a very loose process here, which doesn't jibe whatsoever with the severity with which they dealt with the issue after the fact.
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52 minutes ago, 21isSuperman said:
Had Brady co-operated, it would possibly have been just a fine. It's his own fault for acting like a child. You broke the rules, so deal with the punishment. Fighting it only made it worse. Maybe if Brady weren't such a baby, he could have gotten away with just a fine and this wouldn't have been such a big deal.
This is pure conjecture on your part...if the league office was ever truly open to the punishment being 'soft' here (i.e. a fine), then why wouldn't they have simply announced a fine the next day? They measured the balls at halftime and they were under the legal limit. Isn't that all they needed to know in order to levy a punishment, especially if that punishment was going to be as inconsequential as a fine. They instead opted to shell out $5M to bring in a 'special prosecutor' to launch a 4 month investigation on this. The fact that that's how they handled it tells me that they were hunting for "big game" here from the beginning, and they were going to get their pound of flesh for the effort.
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8 minutes ago, 21isSuperman said:
You mean like how the Falcons pumped crowd noise and paid the fine without complaining? Or how Ray Farmer texted his coaches during a game and paid the fine without complaining?
When I think about it, the perpetrator generally does get a heavier fine if the same infraction is committed multiple times. You have players who get fined more for the same violation, like dirty hits (James Harrison, Brandon Meriweather) or they get suspended for increasing numbers of games after multiple failed PEDs tests
Do you think any Pats fan would have complained had it only been a matter of Kraft paying a fine? Conversely, might Falcons fans have complained had the Falcons lost 1st and 4th round picks and Ryan had to sit for 4 games?
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3 hours ago, 21isSuperman said:
I don't recall all of the details, but the one thing that sticks out the most for me is the reports that Goodell wanted to punish Brady harder to make up for what some thought was a weak punishment for SpyGate.
Not to bring up a dead topic, but with how shady Brady acted (refusing to hand over his phone, destroying his phone, then the incriminating text messages), you still think he's innocent?
My belief has always been that in the very worst case scenario, Brady's guys were asked to stick a gauge in the balls to make sure the refs didn't inflate them way over the 12.5 point. It's the only thing that's ever made sense to me...there was a documented situation in an earlier game where Brady felt the refs gave him balls that were significantly over the 12.5...we know that the "process" was pretty loose in terms of the refs (gauges weren't calibrated, refs didn't record measurements, etc). So I could see a situation where the ball guys were asked to check the balls after the refs were done with them and if they were way over the 12.5 he requested, then take a puff of air out of them. That's a violation. It should have been punished...with something like an $8K fine.
I think what it got turned into was a "plot" to deflate balls below the allowed parameters to gain an unfair advantage. That to me is preposterous...and given how he has played for 2 seasons since this became an issue, it seems even more preposterous.
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9 minutes ago, Gramz said:
Yes I see that. I was referring to you being sarcastic about it ending up in BB''s briefcase. Relax.
I didn't mean to appear un-relaxed. I'm actually pretty exceptionally relaxed right now. It's a relatively slow day at work...Trump hasn't tweeted recently...all good here! -
1 minute ago, Gramz said:
. I know you're being sarcastic, or are you?
his playbook DID go missing...
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3 minutes ago, Gramz said:
I missed this too. Can someone fill us in?
yes...Shanahan's play-book went missing for 30 minutes during a press conference. It was found in Bill Belichick's briefcase,
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11 hours ago, 21isSuperman said:
They have a deep-rooted hatred for Goodell, and it starts at the top with their owner. I'm no Goodell fan, but I can't help but wonder why they hate him so much. Brady broke the rules.
Obviously, they disagree with the claim that Brady broke the rules. They believe, like most New England fans, that Brady and the Pats were railroaded due to 31 other teams hating their success and thinking they "got off easy" for an infraction from 7 years earlier ("getting off easy" apparently being defined as the loss of a first round pick and a million dollar fine, which at the time was the stiffest penalty ever handed down).
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If the Patriots had the Browns history, 99.99% of fans wouldn't even know what 'Spygate' or 'Deflategate' are...they'd have been run or the mill footnotes that would have disappeared from the news cycle after a day, never to be surfaced again.
That's just how it is. I'd rather be arguing with opposing teams fans about this silliness than be a Browns fan.
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I'll say this about the "look at how they did with Cassel and Garapollo" arguments...
1) The 2008 team (when Cassel filled in)...that team was loaded. This was the famed '18-1' team from the prior year, and they had a very weak schedule in '08. So while it's true that 11-5 is not a shabby record, the reality is that that team would almost certainly have been a 14-2 or 15-1 type team had Brady stayed healthy. Not having him that year probably cost them minimally 3 games, which is a HUGE drop-off in the world of the 16 game schedule
2) This year, they went 3-1 without Brady. That is irrefutable fact. But again, I think that has more to do with "luck of the schedule" than "Brady isn't THAT important". Had they opened with Seattle, Denver, Pittsburgh, Buffalo (instead of Arizona, Miami, Houston, Buffalo), I don't think they'd have gone 3-1..
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7 minutes ago, SteelCityColt said:
Small point of order for 1 if you're referring to Super Bowl XLI, Jay Cutler did not become a Bear till 2009.
To Manning's credit, he instead saw off the mighty Rex Grossman... in the rain no less.
100% correct - my bad
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1 minute ago, Jared Cisneros said:
Is Bad Morty from Rick and Morty? Just curious. Also, I'll be a big man and say congrats on your SB win. Just don't troll us too hard lol.
No trolling from me...
Bad Morty...it's an anagram for GOAT.
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2 hours ago, 19colt said:
Not much for me add that hasn't been said but how many times in big games has Peyton had the lucky breaks go his way like Tom has?
1) Playing the worst team to ever make a Super Bowl (Jay Cutler's Bears) was a pretty lucky break
2) Riding the coat-tails of one of the top 5 defenses last year was a pretty lucky break
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This is in no way intended to rub salt in any wounds, but this game reminds me a lot of the Pats game against you guys in the AFC Championship 2 years ago. Colts offense was not quite as prolific as Atlanta's (29 ppg vs 33 for the Falcons), and your D was a bit stingier (23 ppg allowed vs 25 for Atl)...but the makeup of the two teams is similar...hot QB having a great year, younger, smaller defense, came into the game with 2 convincing playoff wins. It just feels like a Pats win to me...I think their D is good enough to keep Atl in the 20's, and I'm having a hard time believing Atlanta's D can do the same.
. I know you're being sarcastic, or are you?
Operation Clown Face...
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There are actually people still talking about this?! Lol.